For Horace and Belle, retirement planning is all about minimizing taxes and maximizing their investments
In a corner of southwest Manitoba, a couple we’ll call Horace, 65, and Belle, 62, are thinking about retiring in five years. They’d like to have a pre-tax income of $120,000 per year after they’ve left the farm. They also want to harvest $250,000 from the sale of their farm to finance the purchase of […] Read moreNow that he’s a farmer, Toban Dyck starts acting like one —making his own inventions. Learn how he made his own cross-country ski trail groomer
The best way to get rid of spilled oil on your workshop floor is by sprinkling gravel or sand over the area, waiting for an hour, then sweeping it up. There. Done. The workshop is ready for spring. All the debris, fluids, clumps of snow and other relics of winter have been swept away. Our […] Read moreBrian Wittal offers some warnings and suggestions for dealing with grade risk when you sign sales contracts
In the last issue of Grainews I discussed a perfect grain marketing contract from a farmer’s perspective. Having thought about this a little more the past two weeks I think we may need to change the term “perfect” to “fair and equitable.” With that change in mind we can work on coming up with terms […] Read moreIt’s time for more research on the value manure can add to our land, and to find more ways to make use of this valuable resource
